Resources and tools for county child welfare agencies in New York State to implement the federal Family First Prevention Services Act law.

This presentation reviews key concepts of implementation science and organizational readiness and offers research-informed strategies for successful implementation.

This presentation presents the efforts underway in Suffolk County to reduce their reliance on congregate care and implement strategies to increase family and community supports.

This worksheet is a Word version of the Assessing Prevention Services Array Tool. It enables a jurisdiction to catalog and assess their array of prevention programs, identifying any gaps in their programming.

This tool enables a jurisdiction to catalog and assess their array of prevention programs, identifying and gaps in their programming.

This document is a companion to the Assessing Prevention Services Array Tool and Worksheet. It provides descriptions of the different data points that are collected on the tool and worksheet.

This best-practice inventory presents consensus from the field about the key steps needed to find and keep amazing kin and non-kin foster parents. It presents best practices and models for identifying, recruiting, training and retaining great foster parents.

Case studies from Onondaga, Dutchess and Westchester counties exploring their efforts to reduce unnecessary congregate care and increase kinship foster care.

This one-pager provides an overview of the Family First Readiness initiative and its success to date.

The Placement Savings Forecaster is designed to assist county child welfare offices in estimating the costs associated with changes to their out-of-home placement array. It identifies savings to reinvest in family-based care.

In this video, New York leaders describe the value of using fiscal forecasting tools to identify the savings that would be available for reinvestment by shifting to a kin-first culture.